The Federation of Compelle is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.879 billion Compelleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Compellean economy, worth 375 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,310 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, frequent flyers are chiseled into statues, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Compelle's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Compelle is ranked 265,166^th in the world and 294^th in Council of Asia for Largest Black Market, with 112 billion Standard Monetary Units.